Win7 Boot Loader and Linux GRUB questions

[sojourner]

Read a lot of forum comments where some people are using GRUB to boot Win7. Was wondering how you do it!

This system is setup with the Win7 Boot Loader appearing with choices for Win7, XP, Ubuntu, Win98 (don't laugh, I use it a lot!!). Works well but GRUB offers greater features and flexibility as a boot manager. Can someone tell me how to get GRUB to boot Win7?

And lastly, does GRUB display Win7's Boot Loader or boot directly into 7 (I'd prefer the latter).

Thanks

[Marin85]

This system is setup with the Win7 Boot Loader appearing with choices for Win7, XP, Ubuntu, Win98 (don't laugh, I use it a lot!!). Works well but GRUB offers greater features and flexibility as a boot manager. Can someone tell me how to get GRUB to boot Win7?

I believe this should give you an idea.

And lastly, does GRUB display Win7's Boot Loader or boot directly into 7 (I'd prefer the latter).

I believe this is usually a setting that is manageable from within Linux, but the above utility should also provide you with such an option.

Hope this helps,

Marin

[tom lightbody]

here's the /boot/grub/menu.lst that I use:
boots the x31 directly into either linux or 7

default 0
timeout 3
color cyan/blue white/blue
#
title 2.6.26-2-686
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet vga=790
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
#
title win_7
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

[sojourner]

#
title win_7
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

hmmm, looks familiar; think I've used this for booting into XP. Would you know if the syntax is the same for XP & 7 except for the 'root' entry? On this system XP is on HDD0 drive 'C', thus root (hd0,0). Win7 would be on drive 'K', thus root (hd0,8). Do you know if this scheme will work to boot XP and 7 independently?

[tom lightbody]

> boot xp and win_7 independently

sorry, can't tell: my only dual booting of windows versions was
w2k and xp using bsd bootloader-->windows bootloader